Hosea 12:10

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hosea 12:1-14

Chapter 12Ephraim feeds on the wind, and follows after the east wind: he daily increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians ( Hsa Hosea 12:1 ),They tried to escape the destruction of God by making a covenant with the Assyrians and by buying mercenaries from Egypt, sending down oil to Egypt. But all of these devices failed.The Lord also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him ( Hsa... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 12:1-14

Hosea 12:4-5 . He found him in Bethel. Christ, the angel, the mystical angel, or the Angel the Word, as St. Clemens of Alexandria calls him: so indeed do all the orthodox fathers. The church knows of no exception, till the time of Arius. See bishop Bull’s defence of the faith of the Nicene fathers. This work has been reprinted in Holland, and it has the first of claims to the study of all ministers. There he spake with us, even the Lord God of hosts. The name here designates the Speaker,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hosea 12:10

Hosea 12:10I have also spoken by the prophets.The responsibility of having the revealed Word of GodThis is a further declaration of God’s goodness to this people, and an upbraiding of them for their wickedness, when they have had so many means.1. It is God who speaks by the prophets. Though the prophets and the messengers of God are mean, yet so long as they speak to you in His name, the authority of what they say is above any. They may be under their auditors in many ways, but the message they... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Hosea 12:10

Hos 12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets. Ver. 10. I have also spoken by the prophets ] And not suffered you to walk in your own ways, as did all other nations, Acts 14:16 . The ministry is a singular mercy, however now vilipended, critized Isaiah 30:20 . And I have multiplied visions ] Whereby I have discovered thy present sins and imminent dangers, though thou hast said, "They shall find none iniquity... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Hosea 12:10

have also: 1 Kings 13:1, 1 Kings 14:7-Nehemiah :, 1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 18:21-Matthew :, 1 Kings 19:10, 2 Kings 17:13, Nehemiah 9:30, Jeremiah 25:4, Amos 7:14 multiplied: Numbers 12:6, Joel 2:28, Acts 2:17, 2 Corinthians 12:1, 2 Corinthians 12:7 used: Hosea 1:2-Deuteronomy :, Hosea 3:1, Isaiah 5:1-Judges :, Isaiah 20:2-Deuteronomy :, Jeremiah 13:1-2 Chronicles :, Jeremiah 19:1, Jeremiah 19:10, Ezekiel 4:1 - Ezekiel 5:17, Ezekiel 15:1-Ruth :, Ezekiel 20:49 ministry: Heb. hand Reciprocal: 1... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hosea 12:10

I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.Spoken — To warn them of their danger. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 12:7-14

ISRAEL’S UNHOLY AMBITION AND BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT, Hosea 12:7-14. Israel’s sole ambition had been to accumulate material wealth, even by the use of the most shameful means. This ill-gotten gain, the prophet says, will avail nothing, for Jehovah is about to reduce Israel to poverty (7-9). The latter part of the section is obscure, due perhaps to a disarrangement of the verses. They seem to contain a complaint of Jehovah because the people disregarded and rejected the prophets whom he had raised... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 12:10-13

10, 11. In manifold ways Jehovah sought to warn the people. By the prophets This is better than R.V. “unto” (compare Amos 2:11; Jeremiah 7:25). Visions One of the means whereby the prophets received divine revelations (Numbers 12:6; see on Obadiah 1:1). (Compare the articles “Vision” and “Prophecy and Prophets” in Hastings’s Dictionary of the Bible.) Similitudes Literally, I have made comparisons, that is, have spoken in similes and parables (Hosea 7:4 ff.; Hosea 9:10; compare Isaiah... read more